Day: March 26, 2018

The virtual reality (VR) industry may very well be the most exciting one in the stock market right now. With high expectations and an even higher pace of technological change, many fear coming volatility could send stock prices tumbling. This has some investors steering clear of this high-flying market. But a potential inflection point in demand could provide incredible returns...
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For many of us, procrastination is a part of life. We delay unpleasant projects at work. We put off our taxes till the very last minute. But if there’s one thing you can’t afford to procrastinate on, it’s saving for retirement. Yet the majority of older workers are guilty of doing just that. Specifically, a whopping 68% of adults aged...
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On Friday, March 23, the Dow Jones Industrials (DJINDICES: ^DJI) finished a terrible week that saw the average lose more than 1,400 points. Many investors went into the weekend extremely nervous that a new downward phase of the recent market correction was under way. Yet by Monday morning, optimism had taken root again, and the Dow posted a triple-digit gain...
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Shares of Tesla TSLA fell by more than 1% through mid-afternoon trading on Monday, before surging back into the green toward the end of the day. Still, the stock has witnessed a much larger decline over the last month that might underscore a troubling trend. With that said, let’s take a look to see what might have investors so worried...
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Fresh off last week’s carnage, Wall Street erased Friday’s losses as diminished risks of a US/China trade war created buying opportunities for investors. Aided by support at its 200-day moving average and outsized gains in component stocks Intel ( INTC ), Microsoft ( MSFT ) and Apple ( AAPL ), the blue chip index posted its largest one-day gain since...
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Goldman Sachs says blockchain could disrupt everything. Dr. Julian Hosp, co-founder of TenX and author of the book Cryptocurrencies Simply Explained , says Ethereum will disrupt everything. Yes, there’s a lot of disruptive buzz around cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether, as well as the blockchain technology that enables them all. What’s an investor to do? According to Dr. Hosp, who...
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You’ve probably seen the headlines . Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently surpassed Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) when measured by market cap, making the e-commerce and cloud-computing company the world’s second-most-valuable publicly traded business behind Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) . At the time of this writing, Amazon is worth just above $740 billion and Alphabet is worth about $720 billion. This major...
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What happened Shares of MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB) climbed 15.6% today despite a lack of company-specific news. Rather, it seems the likely catalyst could be a Barron’s article, published Saturday , that highlighted investors’ optimism for potential mergers and acquisitions involving relatively small cloud-software companies. Image source: Getty Images. So what We should recall that MongoDB only just held its initial...
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